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Try sampling the ground water where the old Western Electric / AT&T / Lucent / Viasystems plant was located. You know where they built all the new stores and eating establishments at around 4500 S. laburnum Ave. ASee what you come up with there…if the county dares……

Stephanie

Great reporting! You MIGHT have this cancer causing agent in your water or in the air under your house. Oh and by the way, this might have been happening for YEARS! No signs of what to look for and no contact information other than the DEQ but no phone number.

sean

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earl mccraw

there is a machine shop near the railroad tracks that makes rollers (!i cant remember the name) during world war 2 they used to build tanks and they dumped so many chemicals in the ground there i was told the ground would smoke and catch fire if someone walked on it sometime in the 80’s.they have areas fenced off that to this day you are not allowed to be on because of contamination.

They need to get a list of all the families who lived in that area for the last 10 years and find out if there is an abnormally high incidence of cancer. Could the husband of the lady interviewed been a victim of this contamination?

Mindy

You might want to check the water supply or the ground out in the Short Pump area also. We have had 6 cases of cancer in the last 10 years. This is in the Whitaker Woods section off of Gayton Road next to the old Gayton coal mines.